A4 Paper

As the mother of a 4 year old daughter, I was astonished to see the new Chinese trend of proving that their waists are no bigger than a piece of A4 paper!

The trend has seen them trying to demonstrate their waists are equal to or narrower than the width of the average A4 paper we use daily in our printers. A4 paper is 8.2 inches or 21 cms. Girls have been posting these worrying results on the internet and Weibo, their version of twitter, in their thousands! Some even boasting they are smaller than an A4 paper being an A3!

I do worry how a trend like this affects our daughters and the pressure it adds to their daily life. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a confident lady but, even I find it hard enough competing with air bushed celebs full of face fillers and Botox, plastered all over the front pages of magazines without being an impressionable teenager! We are being asked to live up to something that is impossible for us to attain. I can only hope that all the thousands of positive words I have given my daughter will make her self image one of her own and not one that will be forced on her by the next new trend!

Whilst a tiny waist has been a long tradition in China, it is worth noting that they have a completely different build to us western ladies. Some ladies, like myself, have taken to humor and decided that we too can have an A4 paper size waist – just Landscape not Portrait! But lets look on he brighter side and have a bit of a laugh with this? Why not tweet us @createmebooks with your pic’s. All paper sizes welcome!

Ll

Couple of articles you may want to read are below. I had to read them to believe it was true!

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Lovely book, daughter really loved it

susan scarlett

Having 2 boys I needed to order 2 books- therefore resulting in having the same story twice but with 2 different names. I think you need more stories. Also I would have liked to use the name mum and dad in the book but you have to you either only which is slightly annoying. Otherwise the quality is good and it's a nice story.

Anonymous

I was very disappointed that it was only my granddaughters name was mentioned in the book. I realised this to be the case as I ordered and as it supported her school I continued.
I have created these books before and they included siblings names and pets, friends etc. The hair colour etc did not seem as important to me as the child did not look like my granddaughter anyway. Perhaps you can try and improve this book for another time,